A classic mystery from the Golden Age of detective fiction.
Josephine Tey is one of the best-known and best-loved of all crime writers. She began to write full-time after the successful publication of her first novel, The Man in the Queue (1929), which introduced Inspector Grant of Scotland Yard. In 1937 she returned to crime writing with A Shilling for Candles, but it wasn't until after the Second World War that the majority of her crime novels were published. Josephine Tey died in 1952, leaving her entire estate to the National Trust.
The Man In The Queue is as fresh and original as ever, 85 years on.
Never one to tie herself to genre conventions, Tey builds on
character and circumstances to create an enthralling cat-and-mouse
hunt.
*Daily Mail*
Inspector Alan Grant, my favourite detective of all time,
painstakingly, fascinatingly identifies the body then chases
suspects up to the Highlands of Scotland and all around the
town.
*Daily Express*
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